Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| where it is to be used for Passover purposes.
! The First National bank Of Helena, Mon,
has on exh bition 81 200 IN Ceur d'Alene gold
| that was pounded out in mortars by two men
| IN two weeks 1t includes Two nuggets worm
| $3.50 each.
A VESSEL with cargo of forty-four os-
triches arrived recently at Galveston, Tex
This is the second cargo within twelve
months. The birds are for ostrlch larLas III
| California. and came from Natal.
A FoURTEEN-YHAR-oL scholar in the dis
trict school near Vandalia, H., took swal-
| low from his ink bottle the other day to see
| how 1t would taste. The next morning ne
| died. HIS physician said that the INK con-
| tanned deadly poison.
A LETTER from the Indian Territory has
been received at the Interior Department at
Washington addressed to the Hon. Robert
| McClelland. Secretary OF the Interior Depart
ment." MIR. McCIeland was Secretary un-
| der President Pierce, from 1853 to 1851.
| LITTLE BELLE MCNICHoL, of st. Louis,
playing with her pet Scotch terrier, accident
ally locked herself in a small and nearly air
| tight closet The dog at once ran down
stairs, and by his actions induced servant
| to follow him to the closet. where she founo
| the child unconscious. Belle would nave
| died in few minutes more but for the ter
/ rer.
| A YOUNG lad in Kingston, n. Y, is the pos
! SCISSOR of a tame pigeon, which follows him
| wherever he goes. On Tuesday 1T followed
| him on his way to school. As soon as ne
| saw it he carried it back to the house Aiter
| he had been in school some time the teacner
| saw the pigeon making its way INTO the
school-room. and the boy had to carry the
| bird home second time.
THERE are three counties in Iowa where
women have been elected. and to-day are dis
charging the duties of County Recorders.
| These counties are Madison, Warren and
| CerrO Gordo. There are also ten counties
| which have elected women as county school
superintendents. 1t seems that according 10
the state laws women can be elected TO any
| office, except that of legislator.
| SIx-YEAR-oLD HERBERT ANTHONY, of
Reading, Pa, has pet terrapin that has
decided love for music, At the sound of any
music it wadd'es toward the source, sticking
! its head and neck out of its shell lust as far as
| possible. 1t has its own particular corner OF
| the kitchen, and insists upon staying there;
| 1t drinks a little water every other day and
eats little raw beef every third day.
AN ACTOR, who sis only awaiting the offer
| of desired site'' on which to erect theatre
Boston, spoke of his prospective enterprise
to a Pittsburg reporter the other day and said,
in answer to the query, vii It De STOCK
nation theatre. certainly. There are only
about four stock theatres IN the United states
| now. All the rest have gone forever"
A YOUNG WOMAN, a graduate at Smiths
College, Northampton, Macs, and afterward
| at Oxford, England, tells us that at the latter
| institution of learning she was asked by a
| young English woman whether she "came
| over in a Putnam" The venerable Lord
Crewe asked a Bo:tonian recently about
| to sail for home whether he stopped any
| where on the way" such little mistakes
| are natural-tO some.
years ago became in his latter days a broken
down drunkard. He used to go around beg
| ging from his friends, and to facilitate his
work had the printed request LEND me a
| quarter" pasted in his hat. Then when
| making call he would take of
his hat and there her was the mute
tended victim. The scheme worked well for
years.
| RECENTLY the Cardinal Project of the Prop
| uganda laid at the feet of the Pope 10000 lire
Peters pence from the Archbishop of New
York. On the same occasion the rector of the
| North American College, DR.. O'Connell, pre-
seutod 1900 lire Peters pence from the
diocese of Buffalo. $50 lire from the diocese of
| Kansas CITY, ana 500 lire from Bishop
| Glorieux. vicar-apostoc of Idaho, the last
| named sum being the first collection of
| Peters pence from the new vicariate.
The remark is current that Judge Rea-
| gan, of Texas, will be the only farmer in the
| Senate" but it's propriety is most doubtful
| There are numerous other Senators who have
farms. They do not work them personally,
nor depend upon them for living, nor yet de-
rive any especial pecunary profit from them.
But then neither does Mr.. Reagan. His vile
runs the farm and says they lose money on
it; for the soil is too sandy to raise any
crops, and the sand is too poor to make into
glass.
FRANK NJ. GRAY, editor of the LINCOLN
County wv. IT, Times, is stanch Republi-
can, while his wife is a dyed-in- the wood
Democrat. This explanation is all that is
necessary to introduce the following an
nouncement, found in the last issue of the
above mentioned paper: "The editor hereof
has left for points on the railroad, hence the
Democratic editor and devil are in charge.
Bring on your Democratic editorial now and
wen fix the Republican head of this concern
too plenty"
THE Biddle House, the largest hotel In De-
troit, covers an acre Of ground, has six acres
of floor, and is wor $500 600. Luther Beech
err, who owns it, has had trouble for twenty
years IN renting the property, and now pro-
poses to give IL to the public. III he can sell IL
he will give 100000 to a fund for the charita-
BILE Institutions in the city. If he can rent 1t
at $50. 900 year he will apply the rental to
the same purpose. If he can neither sell nor
rent, he Will cut up the big building and de-
vote it to charitable purposes.
FIFTY-THREE YEARS ago Isaac slnsbaugh
and Lydia Cotton were 10-year-old school
children near Wayneshurg, Pa, and
very much attached to each other.
Lydia's parents moved West and
the children were separated, In
time Isaac married and reared a large fam
lily, and about ten wears ago his wife died.
He then lived at Pataskaia, o. About a wear
ago he decided that he'd try and find LYDIA
Of whom he had lost all trace; and after long
trying he found that she was a widow in st,
Louis. He wrole to her and she wrote to
him, and the other day he sent her some
money and she started for Ohio. where she
was met by Isaac who married her then and
there.
SAYS the Syracuse IN. " Standards: One
day some five years ago John -, a pro-
fame carpenter who oscillates between Water
vile and Sherburne villages, in the Chenago
Valley, in the prosecution of his trade, while
very angry with one of his men for spelling
some work started to utter an oath, but in
stantly became speechless. Less swearing
was done in the valley on this account for A
long while. and the story ran far and wide
John shortly Joined the church, but his voice
did not come back until year ago, when,
becoming very angry again and forgetting
and did, to his own utter amazemont and
that of all in hearing. lie has since used his
voice without difficulty.
IN committee room OF the Senate six Sem
ators met the other day to celebrate a ioyful
event which occurred affecting one of the